fighting the lack of good ideas
At various stages in my career, I have traveled extensively – yet never even thought of “gaming” the expense reporting system the way it has been recently reported by CNN. Being terminated for charging a movie to your room? Seems harsh (getting the $9.95 back from the employee would seem to be easier) – but…
It’s not news that the Itanium processor is doomed in its current incarnations. Microsoft has dropped support, as has Red Hat – meaning only HP supports it with an active platform in the US (with HPUX). The Itanim should have been Intel’s chance to totally walk away with the processor market – but they blew…
A friend of mine recently pointed me at the newspaper-associated blog of a “recent Appalachian State University graduate and now a freelance reporter for The Charlotte Observer”. Ms Penland seems like a nice person – but her writing is not at all what I would expect for a blog associated with a newspaper – it…
I rarely have good reason to complain about hotels, restaurants, etc. This is one of those rare occasions. And it was made worse because my wife had to go through it, too 🙁 The following is the message I sent to the general manager of the Fishers IN Staybridge Suites location on Tuesday 19 July 2011…
Zynga is getting ready to IPO. They’re the group that does “Farmville” and other games on facebook. The problem with their planned $1B IPO, though, is that they rely completely on facebook’s continued existence to make any of their earnings. Last year their profits were in the neighborhood of $400M. That’s a lot of dough….
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There have been a variety of stories recently about MacDefender, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems. For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for any edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with…
Max Brooks is likely the world’s foremost authority on zombies – how to survive them, what to do if there is an uprising, etc. In “World War Z – An Oral History of the Zombie War”, he tackles the issue of reporting on what happened by interviews with those who survived. From first-hand accounts from a…